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| Kent Walter / The Windows Blog: |
Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview — Moments ago in Barcelona, we announced the release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview, available to download now for anyone interested in trying it out. We've been hard at work for many months now, and while we still have lots more to do …
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| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview detailed impressions — The early days of Windows were inauspicious ones. Sitting on top of DOS, it was hardly a revolution in personal computing — instead it felt like a disjointed platform perched uncomfortably atop a command prompt, ready to come crashing down at any moment.
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| Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web: |
Facebook introduces Premium: A marketer's dream, a user's nightmare? — “People worry that technology will disconnect us, but study after study...has shown that it strengthens us,” said Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg today in New York City. — What Facebook's technology is doing, is connecting brands with human beings.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Reveals Mobile News Feed Ads and Massive Logout Page Ads — Facebook has just unveiled that premium ads built off of Page news feed posts will now be eligible to appear on the mobile news feed and the logout page, in addition to the web news feed and web sidebar.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Facebook's Mobile Ad Plan = Twitter's Mobile Ad Plan — Facebook is still in the first stages of a half-day marketing event, but it has already laid out its long-awaited plan to sell ads on mobile phones. — But if you were paying attention to Twitter's ad news yesterday, then you already know about Facebook's ad news today.| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
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foursquare is joining the OpenStreetMap movement! Say hi to pretty new maps! — We usually use this blog for big product announcements, but, as a startup, we also often think about how we can make life easier for other startups. Today, we're doing both - a little announcement … | Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Foursquare Is Doing Big Things, So Existing Investor Spark Capital Buys $50M Of Employee Stock — Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley spent this afternoon in Barcelona, explaining his location company's potential to Mobile World Conference attendees. Someone else didn't need to hear the presentation, though.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Lytro review — You've never seen a camera like this before There are a few easy ways to make a digital camera better: make the sensor bigger, improve the quality of the lens, speed up the processor. But those are incremental improvements on a basic technology that hasn't changed much in a long time.| Ren Ng / Lytro Blog: |
Lytro in Your Hands — Last year, we launched Lytro with plans to build an amazing new kind of camera. Since then, the Lytro team has worked hard to bring this technology to life and manufacture the world's first light field camera for consumers. Today, we've proudly started shipping … | Seth Godin / paidContent: |
Who Decides What Gets Sold In The Bookstore? — We can probably agree that the local supermarket has no moral or ethical or business obligation to sell cherry-flavored Cap'n Crunch. If the owner doesn't like cherries, she doesn't have to sell them. — And the cereal maker shouldn't work under …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
With SeaMicro buy, AMD to double down on servers — SeaMicro's SM10000-64 server. — Updated: AMD just confirmed the deal and said it would pay approximately $334 million, of which approximately $281 million will be paid in cash. — Chipmaker AMD plans to announce its acquisition … | John Fruehe / AMD Blogs: |
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| Aaron Lee / DigiTimes: |
Apple reportedly considering 14-inch MacBook Air — Apple is reportedly considering launching a 14-inch MacBook Air and may start mass production in the near future to fully enter the Asia PC market, according to sources from the upstream supply chain. — Currently, 14-inch panels …
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
“Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One — As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum loses two primary races to rival Mitt Romney, perhaps he can console himself with, ironically, another loss. Spreading Santorum, the page defining … | Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: |
I'm Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web — Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. — This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Raises $85M From DFJ Growth, Khosla, And Others — Enterprise social network and communications platform Yammer has finally closed that big round we and PandoDaily heard about earlier this year. The company has raised $85 million in new funding … | Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Helpful Tips For Keeping Your Job As Editor Of Techcrunch — I rarely get writers block, but I've aborted multiple attempts to write about the leadership change at TechCrunch yesterday. So I'm going to keep it simple. — I'm exceptionally bummed that so many people have left TechCrunch.
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Thanks:@bobcaswell. See also Mediagazer| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Google's Susan Wojcicki: Where we're heading — Nearly all the company's revenues come from her products. Now, Google's Susan Wojcicki weighs in on what's next for advertising and what the search giant stands to learn from Google+. — FORTUNE — It's been said before, but it's worth saying again …
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| Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft's Windows Azure has a meltdown — Summary: Customers on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform are reporting they've been down for hours. — Customers are reporting that Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud platform has been experiencing a major meltdown in geographies across the world.
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| Katherine Boehret / AllThingsD: |
SmugMug's Camera Awesome Photography App Review — Photography standards have taken a nose dive lately. The photos shared on social networks are often captured on smartphone cameras, which can take poor quality shots. Even photos captured at higher resolutions get downgraded when posted on social networks, including Facebook.
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